Verdict: Rock standard revisited Tamara Lindeman was a promising actress before she turned seriously to music 12 years ago. Using the stage name Tamara Hope, she played Queen Elizabeth I in an HBO movie before taking the lead role in the Canadian-Australian drama series Guinevere Jones. Breakthrough awards from the film world duly came her way. But success on screen didn't feel quite right to her. Lindeman sensed that music would allow her to be more creative, so she assumed another alias — The Weather Station — and began releasing folkish, singer-songwriter records. Tamara Lindeman (pictured) was a promising actress before she turned seriously to music and assumed another alias — The Weather Station